Richard Misrach has been documenting the American landscape for the past 40 years, using his camera to examine the complex relationship between man and the physical world surrounding him. Engaging with traditional themes of the sublime, the immense beauty of his work simultaneously engulfs his subjects and spectators. In his own words, “paradise has become an uneasy dwelling place; the sublime sea frames our vulnerability, the precarious nature of life itself.” As exemplified in the present lot, the solitary figure camouflaged in ocean blue, floats adrift in a vast and seemingly endless sea, forcing us to reconsider the fragility of our lives amidst looming uncertainties.